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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFeb. 9 gay marriage deadline would cause 'mass confusion,' Alabama probate judges argue (al.com)
By Brendan Kirby
Arguing that Feb. 9 is too soon to make the changes necessary to accommodate same-sex marriages, the Alabama Probate Judges Association has joined Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange in asking an appeals court indefinitely delay a court order mandating the practice.
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David Kennedy, an attorney for plaintiffs Cari Searcy and Kim McKeand, said he thinks granting marriage licenses to gay couples is much simpler than the association is making it out to be.
"I really don't see what is confusing about it," he said. "Probate offices have been issuing marriage licenses for ... a long time."
Kennedy said changing the forms is as simple as crossing out "husband" and "wife" and writing "spouse one" and "spouse two." What's more, he said, it should be a simple matter of printing new forms with the correct information.
"We don't live in the horse-and-buggy days," he said. "If they really need help creating new forms, I'll help them."
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more: http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/01/feb_9_gay_marriage_deadline_wo.html
ETA: The comments are surprisingly readable, and some quite amusing (for the best reasons, not the worst)!
"We don't live in the horse-and-buggy days" -- clearly Mr. Kennedy speaks for himself.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)I forgot, they can't change a computer.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I'm just asking. What do you think?
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)ChosenUnWisely
(588 posts)to African Americans since the formation of the Southern States.
Folk this is just the way these folk roll, from a position of HATE, these states were formed upon hate and hate is what fuels them today.
I would say the south is just one big sewer unfit for decent folk but I guess that would be a broad brush so I won't say that.
It takes a whole lot for hate to codify it into a state constitution, slavery, Jim Crow, Juan Crow, anti women and anti LBGT laws have ALL been codified into Southern States Constitutions.
Things will never really change in the South despite what some say.